The Linky project was born in May 2014 based on an idea of ​​engineer Paolo Pipponzi.

Paolo, at that time working at Italian motorcycle maker Ducati, was inspired by his passion for travel and everyday commuter life in Bologna. He came up with the idea of ​​a way to increase our freedom and independence through green mobility.

The project evolved in the summer of 2014, when Paolo traveled and his new business partners did too, expanding on the concept and their needs, and creating a first prototype of what would become the first foldable electric longboard. A motor based on the team's experience in the automotive industry, a battery safe to travel with, a weight that makes travel really an option.

For Paolo a turning point was spending a few months in Scotland, in particular in Edinburgh, that country's center of infrastructure and transportation. It's a city that has functional and accessible public services, a general serenity and calmness of the people and last but not least, great attention for "green transport" that sadly is not present in many other places in the world - including in Italy, where Linky was born!